Shillelagh and Staves

[LucidZzz]

So a Staff of EarthKind has been made by a Druid for an Oread Warpriest which contains the spells: Bull's Strength, Stone Discus, and Binding Earth. All second level spells.

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Each morning, when a spellcaster prepares spells or regains spell slots, he can also imbue one staff with a portion of his power so long as one or more of the spells cast by the staff is on his spell list and he is capable of casting at least one of the spells. Imbuing a staff with this power restores one charge to the staff, but the caster must forgo one prepared spell or spell slot of a level equal to the highest-level spell cast by the staff.

As I understand it, a Warpriest can cast Bull's Strength which gives him the ability recharge the staff. If he sacrifices a second level spell slot to recharge the staff by one charge, does he get to choose which spell to recharge?

Shillelagh can be cast on a non-magical quarterstaff, because a staff functions like a quarterstaff, and this particular staff isn't magical in the sense that it doesn't have any enhancement bonuses, can Shillelagh be cast on it? Or is it still considered magical because it can cast spells?

Edit: If the quarterstaff is the Warpriest's sacred weapon -- and it is not a magical staff, just an ordinary quarterstaff -- does this count as a magical weapon assuming no enhancement bonus is added to it? If so does Shillelagh increase the damage dice according to the sacred weapon damage die?

[James Risner]

You burn a spell on your spell slots that the staff can cast, it recharges one charge.

A staff is a magical quarter staff as it has a magical aura.

[LucidZzz]

James Risner wrote:

You burn a spell on your spell slots that the staff can cast, it recharges one charge.

A staff is a magical quarter staff as it has a magical aura.

So I can choose which spell this "one charge" recharges?

[Magentawolf]

LucidZzz wrote:

James Risner wrote:

You burn a spell on your spell slots that the staff can cast, it recharges one charge.

A staff is a magical quarter staff as it has a magical aura.

So I can choose which spell this "one charge" recharges?

Charges in a stave may be used to cast any of the spells, each spell doesn't have it's own reservoir of charges.

[ryric]

The spells in a staff don't individually have charges, the staff has charges. The user can spend those charges to cast the spells stored in the staff. By giving up a spell each day the user can restore a single charge to the staff. That charge then adds back into the staff's pool and can be used on any of its spells.

[LucidZzz]

Ahh gotcha. Thanks all. So how about Shillelagh with a quarterstaff as a sacred weapon?

[Jurassic Pratt]

Shillelagh increases the base damage of your staff to one of 2 sizes larger and sacred weapon just changes your damage based on your warpriest level and size. Sacred weapon also says that you have to choose either its damage or your weapons base damage.

So basically you'd just take the larger of the 2.

[Cantriped]

As I understand it, Sacred Weapon damage is based on Class Level and Character Size (not Weapon Size). Therefore casting shillelagh on a sacred weapon is of minimal effectiveness because the spell doesn't increase the damage of the club or quarterstaff as a sacred weapon, but rather its base damage. The warpriest has the option to use that (now increased) damage or his Sacred Weapon damage (I assume whichever is greater preferably).

[James Risner]

+1 on shillelaghs not stacking with sacred

[Lady-J]

are there any staffs with infinity charges?

[Cantriped]

Not that I know of, although I suppose you could enchant a quarterstaff with an at-will spell for an obscene amount of money and call it a stave with infinity charges.

[avr]

To actually use the spells in the staff though the warpriest needs the UMD skill for spells not on their list. 'Spell trigger items can be used by anyone whose class can cast the corresponding spell.'

[Imbicatus]

There is the quarterstaff of entwined serpents, but that isn't a staff technically, it's just an item that lets to fire two magic missiles at will.